Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy specialises in the copyright, licensing and rights management issues affecting the cultural heritage and public sector, Higher and Further education institutions, Government Departments, commercial companies and private individuals.
Naomi Korn, is an IP Consultant, with particular interest in digital licensing, rights management and rights exploitation. She works across the cultural heritage sector, Higher and Further Education and other public sector bodies, businesses and professional organisations to develop IP strategies and embed appropriate processes, procedures and policies. She also works in association with Professor Charles Oppenheim, Head of Information Science, Loughborough University and Bernard Horrocks, the Copyright Officer of a major art gallery.
Over the last five years, Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy has worked closely with a number of organisations to help them develop embedded IP policies, manage and organise their rights, assess their risks, as well as develop joined up approaches and user-friendly toolkits to handle compliance issues and the exploitation of their rights.
Naomi originally trained as an archaeologist and has spent her professional career working in or closely with museums and galleries. She was an Assistant Curator of Prehistory and has specialised in copyright across a number of different sectors for the last seven years. Naomi has a practical understanding of the critical challenges created by copyright and the importance of communicating copyright effectively as a strategic, managerial and operational issue that must be embedded within an organisation's ethos and culture. In 2000, Naomi became the Tate Gallery's first Copyright Officer, a post which she held for three years.
Naomi has been active in Europe: a National Expert Advisor and copyright specialist to the EMII-DCF(European Museums Information Institute Distributed Content Framework) EC funded project. Recently she contributed a section on rights issues to the EC funded CALIMERA project, which provides best practice guidelines to museums, libraries and archives. From January to March 2003, Naomi was seconded from the Tate to MDA (Collections Trust) where she developed copyright resources and copyright training modules.
Naomi is currently project managing the JISC (Joint Information Services Committee) IPR Consultancy, a three year project developing and leading on a plan of work that supports JISC and its development programmes in the area of IPR and rights management. She is working on this project with Professor Charles Oppenheim, Charles Duncan and Dr Charlotte Waelde.
Naomi is also project managing a JISC funded project called “Web2Rights “ www.web2rights.org.uk whose aim is to create IP resources to support JISC funded projects in their engagement with Web2.0 next generation technologies.
Naomi is the IP Officer of Collections Trust, the Co-ordinator of Collections Trust's IP Advisory Committee for Collections and together with Professor Charles Oppenheim, providing IP Consultancy Services to the Strategic Content Alliance.
Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy’s other clients have included:
· Palace of Westminster
· The Wellcome Trust
· The Bridgeman Art Library
· Department for International Development
· TASI (Technical Advisory Service for Images)
· The Courtauld Institute and Art Gallery
· BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies)
· Natural History Museum
· National Gallery
· KDCS, Digital Consultancy Service, King’s College, London
· Suffolk Record Office
· The Museums Association
Sponsorship:
Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy was delighted to be sponsoring the conference: Connecting Culture and Commerce: Getting the Right Balance, which was attended by over 200 delegates and took place on 26th January 2007 at the National Gallery, London.
Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy is proud to be a sponsor of Collections Link the UK's National Advisory Service for Collections.
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